Re: US relaxes crypto restrictions?

David Feuer (dfeuer@his.com)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 01:54:16 -0500


Lauri Tischler wrote:
>
> David Feuer wrote:
>
> >
> > Since the hooks are obviously to add compression and redundancy
> > coding there shouldn't be any problem..... OTOH, I wish Linus
> > still lived in Finland.
> >
> Doesn't help, sorry to say..
> The shithead local government signed Wassenaar agreement, actually against
> their own original agreement (about year ago) to keep crypto free in
> Finland..
> Cheers....

still... Finland doesn't have the same traditionally anti-crypto
stance as the U.S. AFAIK.... U.S. gov seems to be much more
paranoid about crypto than others.... The only hope is that with
so much high-quality free crypto floating about, the government
will eventually realize that it really can't do anything about it
and give up.

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